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If you look at the Members' Surname Intrerest list you will find another member researching RAWLINGS in Weston-super-Mare - Have you contacted them to see if there are any links?

http://www.192.com/people/search/ is a web site which does show a Stanley M RAWLINGS living in Weston-super-Mare in 2002-3.  This is according to the electoral roll for that year, although unfortunately no other occupants are shown at that address but you could get the actual address for a fee.  If have a copy of his death certificate - it would show who the informant was which might give you a clue.

You could try looking for siblings of Stanley or Stella to see if any are still living and could help.

You might also try an entry in the local newspaper asking if anyone knows anything about him.  The Newspaper can be found at http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/home and it does print letters to the editor with your type of query.

Good Luck with your search

Name should read "Stanley Malcolm Rawlings"....thanks

Pat,

Thank you so much for your help, I looked at the baptism transcripts and totally missed it. I visited Wick St Lawrence in August 2007 unfortunately I had three small children in the car so didn't stay very long although standing outside the church it just felt like it was the right place. Now I have so much to go on, thank you so much.

Paul 

Thank you - I've found him now - transcribed on the version I saw as MIFFITT!  I would agree with you that the place of birth is certainly Week (Wick) St Lawrence. FreeBMD has a marriage registered  during the September Qrt or 1861 of a William BRIFFETT and a Charlotte TYRELL (Ref Abergavenny 11a 73).  The image of the marriage on the 15th Aug 1861 at Llantillio Portholey Parish Church can be seen online via Familysearch but perhaps you already have this because it gives his father's name as George BRIFFETT which you already know.

However - and I should have done this before when you first wrote but you said that you couldn't find a baptism at Wick St Lawrence - BUT - he's there on our transcripts!

13th Oct 1811  William s/o George and Diana BRIFFET 

William BRIFFET (widower) married Dianah LACEY (widow) in Wick St Lawrence 3rd Aug 1805

You will also find that William BRIFFET (widower) married Mary GILL (widow) at Wick St Lawrence 4th July 1819

Under Burials in Wick St Lawrence there are

Hannah (wife of George) BRIFFET buried 14th Dec 1804

Diana (wife of George) BRIFFOTT buried 17th March 1816, aged 48

Mary (wife of George) BRIFFOT buried 3rd Oct 1820, aged 76

George BRIFFIT buried 13th March 1825, aged 60

You will need to check these yourself - I have copied them so I could have made an error - it has been known!

I didn't look to see if there were any more children

Have fun sorting it out!

Hi Pat

Thanks for your reply. I also have those entries and I believe that both are my William. I also have a Jpeg scan of the 1871 Census, the transcriber has coded the surname as Bruffett. Between 1861 and 1871 he's been a busy man, aged 60 he has a 35 year old wife 3 daughters aged 9, 6, and 3 and a one year old son. He's now located in Penrhos Monmouthshire, the nine year old Daughter Dinah (laterly Diana) is my great great grandmother. I tried to attach the image of the census page but I had a few technical issues (just upgraded to Windows 8) however you should be able to see the image above now, the family are on the first five rows.

You are absolutely right - Isaac & Hester EDWARDS had 10 children with the exception of the first one which was christened in the mother's home parish, all the rest, including your great grand father were christened at Hutton. The actual dates are included in the transcriptions available to members.  It is interesting that you mention Alfred Henry BISDEE.  The BISDEE family had strong connections with Hutton having settled in the area (in Oldmixon initally) from about 1838 - Later of course they lived in Hutton Court.

Alfred Henry BISDEE was married in Tasmania in 1848 which would suggest that he must have entered Australia somewhat before the dates you mentioned. As George EDWARDS wasn't born until about1837 and was still in Hutton in 1851 perhaps he didn't travel with Alfred Henry BISDEE but worked for him after he arrived.

As you probably know, the BISDEE family and its Australian connections are documented in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; Archives Office of Tasmania records. Click here for more info about the BISDEE family.

Going back to Isaac & Hester EDWARDS.  Hester died in 1870.  Isaac's father was a Farmer in Hutton and appears to occupy several plots of land according to the Tythe Map of 1838.  That map is in Weston Library but hopefully we may be able to put the index to it online shortly.

I haven't found the christening of Isaac's father yet but I have found the christening of his mother who appears to have been born in Hutton in about 1778 and died there in 1855.